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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONOERN:

:Bo it known that I, JAMES TI'IOMS, of South Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Tail-Piece for Violins; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to malte and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention relates to a new and improved manner of attaching the E-string to the tail-piece of a violin, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby a comparatively small portion ofAsaid s case of breakage. 'The present plan is to attach the string directly to the tail-piece, the nut or pin which passes into the head, and the remainder wound up in a piece of the head of the instrument. The string usually breaks near the nut, where it beco friction produced in fingering, and, in attaehingit again to the tail-piece, one-fourth of the string is lost-all the portion included between the tail-piece and the point of breakage, at or near the nut. i

My invention consists in attaching the E-string to the tail-board by means of a small wine fully shown and described, whereby the string, when broken, but a tritiing loss of its length. In the accompanying sheet o Figure l is aplan or top view of my invention.

Figure 2,- an inverted plan of the same.

Figure 3, a detached view of a key pertaining to the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate ylike parts.

A represents thettail-piece of a violin, constructed and applied to the violin in the Ausual way, and'B represents the E-string, one end of which is attached to the pin in the head of the instrument, said string passing under a wire, a, in the hole I1 of the tail-piece, and attached to winch or bobbin c, the shaft of which passes verticallythrough the tail-picco, and has a ratchet, C', on its lower end, withwhich a. pawl,.D, engages, said pawl being attached to the under side of the tail-piece, and kept in contact with the ratchet by a spring, F, as shown in iig. 2. The top of the shaft is provided lwith asquare, toreceive a key, G, by Awhich the winch or bobbin is turned and the string wound upon it. 'lhe pawl D has a rod, d, attached to it, which rod passes up through the hole b, and by moving this rod d, the pawl D may be .disengaged from the ratchet at any time. to admit of the string being nnwound from the winch or bobbin.

By having the surplus length of string wound upon the winch or bobbin, it will b the breaking ofthe string near the head ot' the instrument, where the that is lost is the portion included between the point of in the usual plan of attachment, all the string is lost be is about one-fourth of the length of the whole string.

Having thus described myinventilon, I claim as new, an',

u l desire to secure by Letters Patent` Applying a winch to the tail-piece of a violin, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

tring is wast-ed in and have it wound around paper, which dangles from mes worn by the action or l1, as hereinafter may be let out and applied to the nut or pin with f drawingse seen that, in case of breakage generally occurs, all the string separation and the pin-a very small portion; whereas, tween the point of separation and the tail-piece, which JAMES THOMS.

Witnesses WILLIAM ANDREWS, WILLIAM THous. 

